For owners who don’t read code
Secondread reads the software behind your app and writes you a plain-English report on what’s costing you money, what’s about to break, and what to fix first.
Every time someone opens the dashboard, the app downloads every order just to show the newest ten.
Every new order makes this page slower and the database bill bigger.
Ask your developer to fetch only the latest 10 orders.
src/pages/Dashboard.tsx : 12VERIFIEDSample report · not a real customer
Whatever built it, Secondread reads it.
If the code is on GitHub, that’s the whole requirement. These names are here for accuracy, not affiliation.
The ownership gap
AI will hand you a working product before you hire your first engineer. It doesn’t hand you the ability to read it.
So you go by the screens, and by what your developer tells you. Secondread is the third answer, and the only one that comes from the code itself.
What changes after a second read
Some of your infrastructure bill is doing useful work. Secondread points at the part that isn’t, and at the decisions that will make it worse as you grow.
The bill, traced back to its cause.
Plenty of choices work fine at today’s volume and quietly stop working at the next one. Those are the ones worth hearing about while they’re still cheap.
Find the ceiling before you hit it.
Instead of “the dashboard feels slow,” you hand over the file, the line, and what needs to change. Nobody bills you to go looking for it.
A brief, not a fishing expedition.
What the app depends on, where it’s thin, and how you’d walk a buyer or a new developer through it — written down, without borrowing an engineer to write it.
Useful the day someone runs diligence on you.
Sample report
There is no score to interpret. Every finding answers the same questions in the same order, then shows you the code it’s talking about.
SAMPLE REPORT · SR-2041
Nothing looks broken. The work behind the page just keeps growing with your order history.
The page gets slower and the database bill grows, all for rows nobody on the screen ever sees.
Ask your developer to sort by newest and fetch only the ten records this screen displays.
const orders = await db
.from('orders')
.select('*')Sample data. Not a real customer’s report.
How it works
Pick the GitHub repository behind your product. Secondread gets read-only access to the ones you tick, and nothing else in your account.
It follows how the pieces fit together, then looks hard at the decisions that drive cost, reliability, and growth.
Findings in plain English, ordered by what matters. The file paths sit underneath, for whoever ends up doing the fixing.
One connected system
So Secondread follows one customer all the way through: signing in, hitting the database, paying you, getting the email afterwards, and every job running where nobody is watching.
SECONDREAD NEVER CHANGES OR RUNS YOUR CODE.Audit coverage
Not a developer-tool checklist. Open a group to see what sits inside it; the technical detail stays available for whoever wants to verify it.
Monitoring
Secondread rechecks every finding from the previous report against the code you are running today. You get what changed, not the whole report to read again.
Something shipped since your last read introduced it.
The fix hasn’t landed, or it didn’t do what you were told it would.
Nothing is marked resolved on somebody’s word. The code has to show it.
Handoff
You read it once, in plain English. Everyone downstream gets the version that is actually useful to them.
Every finding as a piece of work, with its file reference attached. Enough for a contractor to quote from without a discovery call.
The same findings with the file paths stripped out, for people who need the conclusion rather than the proof.
One row per finding, ready to import as tickets. Nobody retypes anything.
A read-only link for someone with no account. Rotate it, or kill it, the moment you want to.
Access and privacy
Secondread needs enough access to understand your software. It was deliberately built without any ability to change it or run it.
A GitHub App with read access to contents and metadata, on the repositories you tick. The rest of your account stays invisible to it.
The review reads files and stops there. No install, no build, no test run, no server. A read cannot wake your app up or reach a customer.
Your code is read to write the report, then dropped. What survives is the report itself and the verified locations it points at.
No commits, no branches, no pull requests, no comments. There is no code path in the product that writes to GitHub.
Disconnect Secondread in GitHub the moment you want to. Reports you already have stay readable; new reads on private apps stop.
Every report records the exact commit it read, so it can never quietly describe code you stopped running months ago.
Selected source passes through Cloudflare Workers AI for the sole purpose of writing your report. It is kept out of Secondread’s stored reports, logs, analytics, and workflow state.
One-time pricing
No subscription and no free tier. Nothing renews on its own, and no report runs until you pick an app and ask for it.
ONE APP. ONE STRAIGHT ANSWER.
$49USD · one-time
“I built this app and I want to know what I actually have.”
FOR SOFTWARE YOU’RE STILL SHIPPING.
RECOMMENDED$199USD · one-time
“I keep shipping features and I want to know what they cost me.”
WHEN THE SOFTWARE IS PART OF THE DEAL.
$500USD · one-time
“I’m about to buy this, sell this, or bet on it.”
Credits from every purchase land in one balance and expire 90 days after that purchase. A watch only ever runs because you switched it on.
Straight answers
No. Each finding opens with what is happening and why it costs you something, then tells you what to do about it. The file paths and line numbers sit underneath, for the developer.
It is GitHub’s own repository picker, and you tick the apps Secondread may read. Sign in with Google first if you prefer — you can connect GitHub later, when there is a private app you want reviewed.
No. The GitHub App asks for read-only Contents and Metadata, and nothing else. It cannot commit, branch, open a pull request, leave a comment, or write anything back.
No. Your code never lands in Secondread’s database, report storage, workflow state, logs, or analytics. Selected files pass through Cloudflare Workers AI to write the report; what is kept afterwards is the report and its evidence references, until you delete them.
Because the answer depends entirely on what you happened to paste. Secondread pins one exact commit, works through the app on its own, checks every finding back against the source, and gives you a report you can compare against the next one.
Not on tone, no. A finding that sounds confident proves nothing. So every finding has to name the source it came from, and Secondread rechecks those locations before the report goes out.
That is the normal case. Each finding says what to ask a contractor for and carries the evidence behind the request, so you can export a brief, a PDF, or a CSV of issues instead of paying someone to go find the problem again.
It reads GitHub repositories, so the builder barely matters. Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Windsurf, v0, or something you typed yourself — if the code is on GitHub, the review works the same way.
It depends on the size and shape of the app, which is why you won’t see a countdown here. The work runs in the background and keeps going if you close the tab, and you can watch the real stages as they finish.
Yes. Credits sit in one balance and work on any app you connect. Monitor adds 90 days of watches across as many apps as you like, and each watch has to be switched on by you.
Snapshot is one audit credit, good for 90 days. Monitor is 12 credits plus 90 days of watch access. A full new report costs one credit. A follow-up progress check can cost half. When nothing has changed, or the result is already waiting, the check costs nothing.
Security boundaries are part of what gets checked, but this is a product review, not a penetration test. It is not a compliance certificate, and it is not a promise that your app has no vulnerabilities.
Your software shouldn’t be a black box.
An independent read of the software your business runs on, written in language you already speak.